Coronagraphic Imaging of Debris Disks from a High Altitude Balloon Platform
2012
Debris disks are rings of micron-size dust orbiting in the outer regions of planetary systems. Asteroid and comet collisions are the probable sources of the dust. Radiation pressure and Poynting-Robertson drag. Planets shepherd and sculpt the dust into a ring. The dust ring is bright enough to be imaged, brighter than the planets themselves. So debris disk images are our connection to as-yet unseen planets, comets, and asteroids.
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